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Geoscience

Gravity waves influence weather and climate

The effects of gravity waves can only be taken into consideration by including additional special components in weather forecast and climate models. The “MS-GWaves” research unit funded by the German Research Foundation and led by Goethe University Frankfurt has meanwhile further developed such parameterizations and will test them in the second funding period.

Biology

Research news about baker's yeast

Medical Science

ERC Starting Grant for Konstantinos Stellos

With the help of an ERC Starting Grant of € 1.5 million awarded by the European Research Council, Professor Konstantinos Stellos of Goethe University Frankfurt now plans to examine how atheriosclerosis develops.

New Research Centre

Hotter than a hundred thousand suns

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a new Transregio Collaborative Research Centre (CRC/TR) in which physicists from Goethe University, Bielefeld University and TU Darmstadt want to explore “strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions”.